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- From: ebarton@world.std.com (Edward Barton)
- Subject: stacker 3.0 problem
- Message-ID: <EBARTON.92Dec16234601@world.std.com>
- Sender: ebarton@world.std.com (Edward Barton)
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 04:46:01 GMT
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- I just installed the Stacker 3.0 upgrade (unfortunately). I have been
- using Stacker 2.0 for a long time, and it has never given any
- problems. However, now that I have installed Stacker 3.0, I cannot
- run perl scripts any more. (For those of you who don't know what Perl
- is, it is a very powerful pattern scanning and general processing
- language that you can get free from the net. For those of you who do
- know what it is, I am using the bcv14_perl4-019E.zip version.)
-
- Whenever I run a perl script that manipulates files, it locks up the
- machine with a variety of complaints: sometimes Illegal Instruction
- trapped by QEMM, sometimes GP Fault trapped by QEMM, sometimes screen
- goes blank and machine dies, sometimes Read error on C (the stacker
- drive), etc.
-
- This version of Perl is compiled with Borland's VROOM overlay manager,
- so I thought there might be an expanded-memory problem of some kind;
- but I get the same behavior whether I load the Stacker driver high or
- low, and whether I put the Stacker cache in /EMS or not.
-
- I also tried recompiling Perl from the sources using BC++ 3.1 instead
- of 3.0, and got the same behavior.
-
- Does anyone have any ideas for what might be wrong, and how I could
- cure the problem? Otherwise, I guess I'll have to restore from the
- backup and go back to stacker 2.0, which was reliable.
-
- Thanks for any help.
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